'Harry Potter' chases kids' BAFTA
'Terabithia,' 'Happy Feet' also in the running
“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” will slug it out with “Bridge to Terabithia,” “Flushed Away” and “Happy Feet” for best feature at the BAFTA children’s awards.

BAFTA honors 'Sims' creator
Will Wright to receive fellowship
BAFTA is to bestow its highest honor, the fellowship, on Yank vidgame pioneer Will Wright, the first time the org has given the award to someone from the games biz.

BAFTA renews Orange deal
Cell phone company sponsors awards
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts film awards will be sponsored by cell phone giant Orange for the 2008 and 2009 editions.

BAFTA picks awards date
Ceremony to be held Feb. 10
Next year's British Academy Film Awards will take place on Sunday, Feb. 10. That's effectively the same date, the second Sunday in February, as this year's ceremony, which took place Feb. 9.

BAFTA crowns 'Queen' best film
'Scotland,' 'Pan' nab three prizes each
"The Queen" was crowned best film at the Orange British Academy Film Awards and "United 93" helmer Paul Greengrass took director kudos in a night where the spoils were shared out. British, American and international fare was feted at the ceremony, held for the first time at London's Royal Opera House.

Rivals ponder 'Queen' coup
'King' and 'Royale' subjects stir the pot
With its 6,000 voting members split between Blighty, Los Angeles and New York, spanning the film biz, the TV industry and even videogamers, the British Academy of Film & Television Arts is a very broad church indeed.

Blighty films explore blight
Filmmakers turn away from escapism
If any filmmaker fits the description of a prophet without honor in his own country, it's Ken Loach. His "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" may have won the Palme d'Or, but it didn't manage to get a single BAFTA nomination in his own homeland

2006 BAFTA nominees



Alexander Korda Award Nominees
Best British Film
Alexander Korda Award Nominees - Best British Film

BAFTA looks to stem ratings low
Org aims to plug the plunge
With a British-skewed nomination list for this year's BAFTA film awards, BBC webheads are hoping the domestic telecast of the kudos presentation will reverse a nearly 50% decline in viewers since 2004.